DIASPORA BLUES AFRICAN AMERICAN & JEWISH STUDIES and sometimes even children without

and sometimes even children without families fled the country in droves

Publisher : Civitas Books

Revised edition (March 16

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DIASPORA BLUES AFRICAN AMERICAN & JEWISH STUDIES and sometimes even children withoutTimeless and timely, there is verse and music in Diaspora Blues tuned by an acute intelligence. Ali Jimale Ahmeds pithy and elegant lines span the range from the classical Arabic jewels of an al Maari, to the kind of ironies that grace the discursive English Restoration wit of Pope and Swift and all this delivered with the lucidity of the vocal pronouncements of a modern day griot. As an indefatigable traveler of worlds and times, Ahmed brings the